1COMET, Bullard Laboratories, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0EZ. E-mail: [email protected] 2Laboratoire de Geophysique Interne et Tectonophysique, UJF-CNRS, Grenoble, France 3Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, MS 300-233, 4800 Oak Grove Road, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA 4COMET, Department of Earth Sciences, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PR 5Now at: Berkeley Seismological...

BACKGROUND To investigate the prevalence of antibiotic usage in children aged <5 years with acute respiratory tract illness (ARTI) in Iran. MATERIALS AND METHODS Data were collected from a national health survey conducted in 2010 (Iran's Multiple Indicator Demographic and Health Survey). Participants of this cross-sectional study were selected by multistage stratified cluster-random sampling ...

AIM In the current survey, we explored the prevalence of verbal and physical abuse against the nurses in different hospitals of north of Iran. METHODS We performed a cross-sectional survey. Nurses were interviewed using a standardized questionnaire (Staff Observation Scale Revised (SOAS-R)). The sample covered 400 participants from 5 hospitals of Mazandaran University of medical sciences, Sar...

BACKGROUND To determine the equality in safe delivery indices, i.e., appropriate place of delivery, type of delivery and skilled attendant for delivery, and their determinants in Iran. METHODS This study was performed using the data of Iran demographic and health survey, performed in 2000. Our sample was nationally representative and included 17,991 Iranian married women aged 10 - 49 years wh...

The purpose of this paper is to determining the present condition of service quality and the study of the implementation of total quality management and its emphasis on the five main principles namely customer satisfaction, continual improvement, Involvement of people, process approach and finally systematic approach in insurance companies in order to determine how TQM principles affect service...

BACKGROUND Healthcare providers are competitive, owing to heightened customers' awareness and expectations of health care services. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between customer value creation and loyalty with mediator trust and customer satisfaction. METHODS This is a cross sectional survey study. Participants were 196 patients referred to private hospi...

BACKGROUND The nation-wide epidemiological survey of psychiatric disorders in term of lifetime prevalence is not adequately known in Iran. The prevalence of lifetime psychiatric disorders was estimated among the population of aged 18 and over on gender, age group, educational level, occupational status, marital status, and residential area. METHODS The subjects were 25,180 individuals selecte...

This descriptive survey research was undertaken to study the factors affecting attitudes of agricultural faculty members towards nanotechnology. The statistical population of this study consisted of the agricultural faculty members in Iran (N=225). A sample of 144 persons was selected by using the stratified random sampling method. Data collected using a mailed questionnaire that was validated ...

BACKGROUND Toxocariasis is an important disease caused by the larvae of parasitic worms such as Toxocara canis and T. cati. Public parks can be the source of toxocariasis for small children. This survey was conducted to determine the prevalence of Toxocara spp. ova in parks of Mashhad and Khaf northeastern Iran. METHODS In this descriptive cross-sectional study, performed in November 2011 to ...